Sunday, October 2, 2016

Hillary Clinton hails Merkel as a favorite world leader

asked to name a favorite, the Democratic nominee said “One of my favorites has been Angela Merkel … her leadership and steadiness on the euro crisis and her bravery in the face of the refugee crisis is something that I am impressed by.”

Trump calls Angela Merkel his favorite world leader except for migrant disaster after months of bashing her The GuardianRepublican nominee’s comments come after he had said Merkel was ‘ruining Germany’ and said she should be ‘ashamed of herself’ over her refugee policy Merkel is doing a fantastic job as the Chancellor of Germany. Youth unemployment is at a record low & she has a budget surplus.” Curiously, Trump’s statement came only hours afterClinton ... interview with a local reporter in New Hampshire, the Republican presidential nominee proclaimed: “I think Merkel is a really great world leader.” Though, he added, “I was very disappointed that, when she, this move with the whole thing on immigration, I think it’s a big problem and really, you know, to look at what she’s done in the last year and a half. I was always a Merkel person. I thought really fantastic. But I think she made a very tragic mistake a year and a half ago.” Trump was criticizing the German chancellor’s openness to taking refugees from Syria. Despite the ongoing civil war and humanitarian crisis in that country, Trump has long warned of the danger of taking in refugees, whom he has compared to the Trojan Horse. , Trump has praised Merkel in the past. In August 2015 he called her“probably the greatest leader in the world today” and, in 2013, he tweeted“Angela Merkel is doing a fantastic job as the Chancellor of Germany. Youth unemployment is at a record low & she has a budget surplus.”

December, after Merkel bested him to be Time’s Person of the Year, Trump tweeted she was “ruining Germany”. He had previously said Merkel should be “ashamed of herself” over refugee policy. Hillary Clinton is running to be America’s Angela Merkel. We’ve seen how much crime and how many problems that’s caused Donald Trump in August Trump has since gone on to compare Merkel to his election rival Hillary Clinton. In August, he said, “Hillary Clinton is running to be America’s Angela Merkel, and we’ve seen how much crime and how many problems that’s caused the German people.”

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